Download coordinates as: Burpengary is a town and suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
[citation needed] The locality is bounded to the east by the Bruce Highway, to the west by Oakey Flat Road, to the north-west by the North Coast railway line, and to the south-west by Burpengary Creek and the North Coast railway line.
[citation needed] St Eugene College (Burpengary's first secondary school) opened on 1 December 1989.
[12] Historically, Burpengary has been a predominantly blue-collar suburb with a significant proportion of the population directly employed in a labouring or trade-related jobs.
[13] In 2013, Burpengary was one of the Moreton Bay Region's fastest growing residential areas.
[14] Burpengary State Secondary College opened in 2015, offering years 7 and 8 initially.
[15] Redwood College was opened by an evangelican Christian group in 2018 to provide a Christian-based distance education only, with expectations of enrolling on-campus students once buildings were completed.
[16] The school closed in December 2023, following complaints of underpayment of teachers and concerns over its education program.
The other top responses for country of birth were England 4.7%, New Zealand 4.2%, South Africa 0.7%, Philippines 0.7%, and Scotland 0.6%.
[19] 90.7% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were Samoan (0.4%), Mandarin (0.3%), Tagalog (0.3%), Dutch (0.3%), and Afrikaans (0.2%).
[36] A new centre in the area is the AFL fields, where the Brisbane Lions played three Australian Football League pre-season competition matches.
[citation needed] There are a number of parks in the suburb, including: Burpengary railway station provides access to regular Queensland Rail City network services to Brisbane and Ipswich, as well as Caboolture and the Sunshine Coast.
The 660 bus also travels through Burpengary providing connections to Redcliffe, Caboolture, Morayfield and Deception Bay.